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These precautions well understood by both of us, I went ho the outer door of our chambers with my key, I found a letter

in the box, directed to h not ill-written

It had been delivered by hand (of course, since I left home), and its

contents were these:-"If you are not afraid to coht at nine, and to come to the little sluice-house by the liarding your uncle

Provis, you had much better come and tell no one, and lose no ti this with you"

I had had load enough upon e

letter What to do now, I could not tell And the worst was, that I must

decide quickly, or I should miss the afternoon coach, which would take

ht I could not think of

going, for it would be too close upon the ti I knew, the proffered inforht itself

If I had had aone Having hardly any ti me

that the coach started within half an hour,--I resolved to go I should

certainly not have gone, but for the reference toon We's busy preparation, turned

the scale

It is so difficult to become clearly possessed of the contents of almost

any letter, in a violent hurry, that I had to read this ain twice, before its injunction toto it in the same mechanical kind of

way, I left a note in pencil for Herbert, telling hi away, I knew not for how long, I had decided to hurry